Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
the Central Pollution Control Board (cpcb) has finished work on the first part of the zoning atlas that classifies areas according to their ability to house particular industries. The first effort of its kind in India, the atlas currently covers 17 districts spread across 12 states. The Zoning Atlas for …
A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court has ordered the closure of six polluting industries in Kattedan Industrial area. The industries are Vijayanand Textiles, Ramachandra Refinery, Anil Refinery, Bhavani Industries, Supreme Pigments and Jayadurga textiles. The closure was ordered on the basis of a report submitted by the …
after prolonged ad hocism, the Union ministry of environment and forests ( mef ) has at last banned the use of azo dyes in India from June 23, 1997. These dyes were widely used for dyeing natural and synthetic fibres, leather, plastic, oils, fats, waxes, straw, timber, paper as well …
According to recent reports, as many as 50 elephants were killed by poachers in Kerala over the past three to four months. Forest officials in Wynad suspected the number to be even higher. They admitted that it was easier for the poachers to escape across the state boundaries as there …
The Karnataka High Court recently awarded damages worth Rs 21,000 to a petitioner Muniswamy Gowda, who had accused a rice milling industry of damaging his health. The court ordered the state government, the chairperson of Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) and the owner of the rice milling industry to …
A watchful eyeParents would soon be able to use the Internet to keep an eye on their children at nursery school. A new system called Kindercam can send a colour video image twice a second from a video camera in the nursery school to the Kindercam web site, where parents …
the threat of arsenic pollution looms large over the north Karanpura coal fields of south Bihar, in the coal samples of Bachara and Piparwar. A recent study conducted by Nitish Priyadarshi, a research scholar from the Ranchi University, has revealed high levels of arsenic, nickel, chromium, strontium, lead, cadmium and …
Oxfam (India), a relief and development organisation, has launched a massive relief and sustainable development programme in the drought-hit areas of Orissa. The Rs 1.5 crore programme will be implemented in the worst-affected villages of Bolangir, Kalahandi and Nuapara districts, with the help of local NGOs and community-based organisa- tions. …
IT TOOK 50 years for the Municipal Corporation (MC) of Ludhiana to shake off its stupor and gear up to rid the city of garbage accumulated over these years. Although better late than never, authorities now realise that the powerful industrial lobby of the city - one of the most …
By the end of the century, China will emerge as a society comprising aged people. The number of people aged 65 and above is rapidly increasing in China reflecting a change in the age structure of the population, according to a recent nationwide sample survey. The survey, based on one …
The Delhi High Court (HQ recently reserved its order on the import of zinc and lead ash skimmings after hearing a marathon argument on a petition filed by the Zinc Manufacturers Association (ZMA). The HC had imposed an interim ban on the import of these two items on April 22, …
A NEW fibre developed by the British textile firm Courtaulds - Lyocell - is causing considerable interest in the markets in Europe, and now in India. Courtaulds claims that Lyocell blends the favourable qualities of cotton with those of synthetic fibre, and can be mass produced in an envirpnment friendly …
JOINT NETWORKING: Oracle Corporation of the US has entered into an alliance with the Philippine Long Distance Phone Company (PLDT) to build a telecommunications and computer network in the Philippines. The project called Phil-Net will initially put Oracle's low-cost network Computers on college students' desks giving them access to the …
BY TREATING acute liver failure through hepatocyte transplantation (transplantation of the liver cells of a foetus), a team of doctors in Hyderabad claimed a major breakthrough. The team headed by C M Habeebullah, prominent gastroenterologist and liver expert, has developed a new technique to treat people suffering from chronic and …
Ceramic bearings can be used safely in industry now that German scien tists at the Fraunhofer Institute For Mechanics of Materials in Freiburg have developed a computer model to predict when they are close to cracking up. The researchers loaded bearings to their breaking point and compared the laboratory results …
The day the Internet died Pundits often predict that the Net will soon grind to a hat under an intolerable burden of spam, newbies and Web pages that rant about Microsoft. It hasn't happened yet - but in late April the Net suffered a near-death experience when 40 per cent …
Even as symptoms of global warming are emerging around the world, a treaty to check emissions of greenhouse gases is facing stiff opposition from industries and employment agencies in the US, purportedly one of the most environment-conscious countries. With a global treaty scheduled to be framed in December, the pubic …
THE scars left by industrial pollution have failed to heal in Sumgait, a former industrial city located near Azerbaijan's capital, Baku. Plans to repair the dam age done to the city's ecology and economy have remained on paper due to interference from the industrial lobby and some politicians. Sumgait was …
The Gujarat unit of People's Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) recently filed a petition in the High Court of Gujarat against the state government, the commissioner of industries and chief factory inspector of Gujarat alleging the failure of chemical and pharmaceutical industries in Ankleshwar to disclose information about the dangers …
The National Conservation Strategy and the Policy Statement on Environment and Development was adopted by the Governink ,nt of India in June 1992 to provide the basis for the integration and internalisation of environmental considerations in the various policies and programmes of the government. In 1994, a far-reaching notification by …
